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| 3 | 124 | View more quotes about slavery">Slavery, incidentally, often brings a woman to beauty, for a variety of reasons. |
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| 3 | 121 | To be sure, beauty is more than a mere combination of external relationships, the eyes to the hair, the thigh to the forearm, and such. |
| 3 | 122 | Beyond such things, of course, it is difficult to define but then, so, too, is almost anything of importance. |
| 3 | 123 | It is perhaps more analogous to an illumination, or a whisper, or a kiss, than a measurement. |
| 3 | 124 | Slavery, incidentally, often brings a woman to beauty, for a variety of reasons. |
| 3 | 125 | Most trivially, within it she is seldom permitted the straining, disfiguring uglinesses common to the free woman, nastiness, arrogance, brassiness, and so on. |
| 3 | 126 | Such unpleasantries can be lashed out of her, for they are not pleasing to the master. |
| 3 | 127 | More importantly, more profoundly, in slavery she finds herself in her place in nature, at her master's feet; in slavery she finds herself returned to her womanhood, to her mastered femininity. |